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05 August 2010
This is an excerpt, page 209, from my book The Hamlet Secret: a self-directed workbook for living a passionate, joy-filled life.
Today's blog is dedicated to a new friend, Carla at Sanity Journals in thanks and respect for the work and dedication she brings to her mission. Visit her and tell her I sent you..
Breathe. Who knows what else there is?
Do you think you will 'figure it out'? There is no power in the brain that could ever match what the universe, as one collective master teacher, is waiting to whisper in your ear. But you have so much noice going off in your head so often that it's hard to hear the instructions.
Michelangelo, when discussing hte sculpture 'David', said that the form and firgure were already there in the marble before he began his work. all he had to do was chip away the parts that weren't David. So it is with us; we all know all we need to know. We just get in our own way by trying to constantly fill the space with noise.
Need more proof? Sit in silence for even ten minutes a day for just a week. You may develop a habit of it.
The 'rest' comes from silence and the rest-- and that means everything available in the universe-- is contained in the silence. Listen to the 'no-thing'.
That's it. See you again, soon.
